May 6, 2021 | Colds and Flu, Dementia, What We're Talking About
COVID-19 has had and continues to have a big impact on conventional general practice service delivery. The vaccine rollout is placing another layer of stress and disruption to the return to “normal” services and the risk is that some patients could be...
May 5, 2021 | First Aid and Self-Care, Symptoms
Septicemia is dangerous and can be fatal. If you have a high temperature and don’t know the reason why it’s best to have a blood test urgently. Septicemia is an infection in the bloodstream. And it’s extremely serious. So you might have a boil, or...
May 4, 2021 | Healthy Eating, Healthy Living
Eating lots of roughage and plant based foods helps ensure you don’t experience constipation or difficulty passing stool. This maybe the safest way to avoid getting haemorrhoids. Haemorrhoids are like varicose veins in your bottom. They can be outside the anus...
May 3, 2021 | Gastrointestinal Health, Symptoms, Tests and Investigations
A lot of people have hernias and don’t come to any problem, don’t have any problems with it and only really needs treatment if it’s bothering you or is severe and causing pain. So most people with hernias will live with it without really ever knowing...
May 1, 2021 | Babies and Pregnancy
Cleft Lip can leave a child with lots of difficulties and ongoing struggles in future life. It is important to see specialists as soon as possible Cleft palate, it goes along with cleft lip or what’s sometimes called a hair lip, is really a failure during the...
May 1, 2021 | Kids and Teens Health, Pain, Symptoms
The best way to treat hand, foot and mouth disease is to drink lots of fluid until it slowly passes away. There is so specific treatment and you have to wait it out. Hand, foot and mouth disease is an infection with a virus called Coxsackie. And there’s been...
Apr 30, 2021 | Mental Health
Quit often it’s not the presence of multiple diseases that causes depression but the stress and trauma of dealing with their symptoms and effects on our health ultimately leads one to feel like they’re fighting a losing battle and experience symptoms of or...
Apr 29, 2021 | Coronavirus - COVID-19, Mythbusters, Tests and Investigations
Was the Covid-19 Vaccine Rushed? It’s a bit of a myth that the COVID 19 vaccines were developed quickly. In fact, the COVID vaccines in use now were ready to go in January 2020. This was the result of a challenge a few years ago for researchers to develop a...
Apr 29, 2021 | Coronavirus - COVID-19
If you can you should get both covid-19 vaccine and the flu vaccine – but two weeks apart from each other. People are concerned that you might reduce the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine or the flu shot (vaccine) if you have them too close together. Having...
Apr 27, 2021 | Tests and Investigations
Smallpox is the only infection which has been eradicated in most of the first wold counties, including Australia. Smallpox is the only infection to have been eliminated around the world. Well, not entirely eliminated, I’ll come back to that in a moment, but...
